Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1999, 10:20 PM EDT for Vance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1999, 10:20 PM EDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1999, 10:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vance County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1009 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 25, 8:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 8:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 7:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 21 min |
| Aug 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 35 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.